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by sf_rob 8y ago
I have a similar USB setup that was getting hot to the touch this weekend (sd card reader). I blamed the reader, but now I'm curious.
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by sf_rob 8y ago
My Google Pixel 1 sometimes crashes from overheating without any heavy program or weather happens. My Nexus 6P had the common issue of shutting down with 15-20% battery estimated (arguably not a crash but same UX).
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by sf_rob 8y ago
Well my dad's construction company is doing a lot more prefab in warehouses which is not only more efficient but removes hazard pay (elevation related). This would not be possible if not for the advances in BIM software.
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by sf_rob 8y ago
Yep, I bike in in the summer months and would consider this. I would never consider Amazon Key for my home. Way too personal and I'd have to integrate or remove my security system.
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by sf_rob 8y ago
It likely was formerly true. Maps was very limited 2 years ago when I turned off Location History; it's gotten a lot better since.
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by sf_rob 8y ago
It used to be the case that Maps wouldn't search places that you starred on that device when you turned off Location History. They fixed that some time in the past year.
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by sf_rob 8y ago
Musk in an interview last week said as much (re: automation). He claims that the Model 3 line was over-automated so now they're tearing out sections for rework while doing more with the labor on hand. (Although they're about to
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by sf_rob 8y ago
Nope (AFAIK). Their best bet is either using a 3rd party filing service (which appear to be working) or getting it in the mail in time for a postmark today.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
While I don't approve of some (most?) of their antics, Phone Losers of America did a series where they "prank called" users of Foursquare and started reading off details about their personal lives. Pretty scary stuff that pu
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Would be fun to write a content aggregation site where you had to answer a question about the article before commenting like some sites are doing with their own internal forums.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
The problem is that that's not how human cognition works. If the auto-pilot is working well your brain will inevitably become accustom to the lack of stimulus. Ironically I think that these systems have a kind of uncanny valley type
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by sf_rob 9y ago
While it may be helpful to make the stakes real for your nephew, there are fake/paper trading accounts available at many brokerages.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
It's a virtual home owners association in my experience.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Most property tax is local not state. I don't have the percentage breakdown, but I have encountered this multiple times within my family (anecdotal I know). It's quite possible that this percent is not a majority. Plus, your lin
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by sf_rob 9y ago
I completely agree that these things are oversimplified and people don't discuss luck enough. However, if you're able to isolate your retirement savings from the rest of your life (which is a big if which doesn't apply to
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by sf_rob 9y ago
And a lot of places freeze your property tax at 65, so you never have to pay more.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Unfortunately disruption is a temporary state. Hopefully the existing incumbents will continue to provide enough competition in your area to keep each other in check.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Publishing something does not make it public domain. I am not a lawyer, but saying they can do anything with what they scrape seems questionable.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
While I rarely use my Home, Android Auto is incredible. (Although it's still infuriating 5% of the time, it seems to like to make best guesses more than asking for clarification which is super annoying)
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by sf_rob 9y ago
The budget market is generally a race to the bottom, and I don't see Apple interested in such a market. I know the counter will be that Apple can combine quality with fairly low price, but I think that's quite a high risk proposi
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by sf_rob 9y ago
That's very sad as a motorcyclist who hoped that this would be a huge improvement. Most of the near accidents I've had have been inattentive drivers not checking their blindspots.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
This happened to me in Toronto (my local coworkers said it was a common thing) and the doorman threatened to not let me in and to not return my bags that the airline temporarily lost and delivered there.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Which really means that a major motivator for Tesla at this point will be the threat of a class action lawsuit for selling a feature that doesn't exist and whose timeline keeps getting pushed back.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
You can only trade BTC and ETH at this time. Robinhood allows you to track 16 currencies, although I imagine this tracking is going to be used to estimate interest in other cryptocurrencies to integrate.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
If they're interested in taking on the counterparty risk they could do this, but when the mempool is flooded you can replace pending transactions with new transactions with a higher fee (called "Replace by Fee").
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Even if you accept that your food comes from animal byproducts, being vegan will drastically reduce your "animal footprint". Turning blood/bone/manure into wheat is much more efficient than turning blood/bone/
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by sf_rob 9y ago
I got the touchbar because it was required for the screensize/processor combo I wanted. I don't hate it, but it's a gimmick more than anything.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
1.6x is not "almost twice" and that's comparing the larger storage X to the base S8.
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by sf_rob 9y ago
I entirely agree with you, other than your interpretation of what Krugman was getting at. He never brings up this as a political/leadership problem, and the great discussions that this would bring. He also is making a general argumen
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by sf_rob 9y ago
Some of the worse points of this article: 1) "Bitcoin turns out to be a clunky, slow, costly means of payment". This is missing the phrase "right now". There is nothing inherent/unfixable in Bitcoin or competing c

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